Please contact Andrea Wedler, Director of Financial Aid, at awedl@albanylaw.edu or (518) 445-2388for more information about this program or other loan repayment options.

Deanne Loonin has been an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center since 1997. She is the Director of NCLC’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project. More information about the project can be found at www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org/Ms. Loonin is the primary author of the comprehensive legal manual, Student Loan Law (4 ed. 2010 and Supp.), and has authored numerous policy papers and reports on student assistance topics, including No Way Out: Student Loans, Financial Distress, and the Need for Policy Reform (June 2006) and The Student Loan Default Trap: Why Borrowers Default and What Can Be Done (July 2012). She is also co-author of the NCLC Guide to Surviving Debt (2010). Prior to joining NCLC, Ms. Loonin was an attorney at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles.